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Too dry to hunt around here, even getting down an inch entails chopping but still wanted to walk around, get some exercise and enjoy the weather so I picked up the Vaq for a change and headed out for the heck of it.
Found a dime, a zincoln and a copper cent on the way to my favorite area in this park, a popular entrance area, so only digging the most shallow signals I came across I was still successful...12 more cents than I started with when I left the house.
I have found some good targets in this entance spot before, some silver dimes, an old wheat or two, but now there is very little left here except trash signals and I have been digging those from time to time in the past couple of months just to dig...something.
I found a few really shallow tabs and dug them, a couple of stay tabs and a beaver tail or two, but they were really shallow so what the heck.
Then I got another tab signal.
A bit deeper, maybe two inches according to my Propointer, but no grass here so I decide to chop my way down and recover it and then go home.
I hunted and dug and got it out of my system for today...plus I am flush with 12 cents in treasure pocket so, good hunt.
About 1.5 inches down I find a coin so that is surprising because this was a tab signal all the way.
It disced out at tab on the Vaq, came back in at tab thumbing up and then back down, was a little noisy at the end like most tabs so it was supposed to be a tab but it was solid enough and was within my rules for digging...so I did.
Not a tab...not even an eaten up zincoln either but a really dirty nickel.
Surprised...I know all the mineralization around here plus the extra iron up-averages most signals on my F70 because it is programmed to do that but not expecting a nickel to come in so high on the Vaq.
My dirt is just weird...I have been saying that for awhile now but because it is there are still some great things hiding in it that were missed for decades by everyone, including me in the last few years I have hunted this park.
I was happy anyway, confused but happy and then I looked closer at that nickel after rubbing off some of the crusty dirt and I was shocked...not just any modern nickel but a buff and it even had a nice, legible 1936 date.
Alrighty then, this ok hunt just became a great hunt.
Score one for the Vaq.
Still don't know why it was a tab signal, nothing else around the area when I checked but it was also a tab signal on my F70 I am sure because I have been over this area a million times with that one and 3 different coils and had to hit this target before but never dug it.
Whatever...I found it this time.
Maybe one day we will get some rain but till then I will happily take what I can get.
This is what this hobby is all about, thrills, chills and surprises.
Even little ones like this
Found a dime, a zincoln and a copper cent on the way to my favorite area in this park, a popular entrance area, so only digging the most shallow signals I came across I was still successful...12 more cents than I started with when I left the house.
I have found some good targets in this entance spot before, some silver dimes, an old wheat or two, but now there is very little left here except trash signals and I have been digging those from time to time in the past couple of months just to dig...something.
I found a few really shallow tabs and dug them, a couple of stay tabs and a beaver tail or two, but they were really shallow so what the heck.
Then I got another tab signal.
A bit deeper, maybe two inches according to my Propointer, but no grass here so I decide to chop my way down and recover it and then go home.
I hunted and dug and got it out of my system for today...plus I am flush with 12 cents in treasure pocket so, good hunt.
About 1.5 inches down I find a coin so that is surprising because this was a tab signal all the way.
It disced out at tab on the Vaq, came back in at tab thumbing up and then back down, was a little noisy at the end like most tabs so it was supposed to be a tab but it was solid enough and was within my rules for digging...so I did.
Not a tab...not even an eaten up zincoln either but a really dirty nickel.
Surprised...I know all the mineralization around here plus the extra iron up-averages most signals on my F70 because it is programmed to do that but not expecting a nickel to come in so high on the Vaq.
My dirt is just weird...I have been saying that for awhile now but because it is there are still some great things hiding in it that were missed for decades by everyone, including me in the last few years I have hunted this park.
I was happy anyway, confused but happy and then I looked closer at that nickel after rubbing off some of the crusty dirt and I was shocked...not just any modern nickel but a buff and it even had a nice, legible 1936 date.
Alrighty then, this ok hunt just became a great hunt.
Score one for the Vaq.
Still don't know why it was a tab signal, nothing else around the area when I checked but it was also a tab signal on my F70 I am sure because I have been over this area a million times with that one and 3 different coils and had to hit this target before but never dug it.
Whatever...I found it this time.
Maybe one day we will get some rain but till then I will happily take what I can get.
This is what this hobby is all about, thrills, chills and surprises.
Even little ones like this